Macca

Well done to both teams That makes 4 teams through to the Semi Finals (adding in the 2 Rugby 7 teams) With the Opals & Sharks to hopefully win their QF's

What a performance!! How good!!! Alise was unbelievable under extreme pressure Our youngest winner since Sandra Morgan (14) in the 1956 Olympics (Swimming relay) And I believe Thorpie was only 14 when he Won at World Championship level And I embrace all these new sports in the Olympics. Opens up the Olympics to a number of new sports And if we're going to have professional sports such as Tennis, Golf, Football & Basketball in the Olympics, why not those sports with a lower profile that can appeal to a different audience? Anyway, Kudos to Alise Trew!

Yeah, we'll need the new breed coming through. But Basketball is starting to thrive in Australia so hopefully we can produce some more Josh Giddey types Mills was fantastic early but the Serbs curtailed him very well after half time Hard to penetrative that defence though. Again, Serbia just that little bit too good when it counted Really enjoyable game, all the same. The crowd was thoroughly entertained

Brave effort by the Boomers but Serbia just too good in the end Serbia's defence stepped it right up in the 2nd half and we ran out of avenues to score Better team won

Noemie Fox - Champion in the Kayak Cross

Every Aussie competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, and their medal chances rated Roy & Hg Podcast Full Schedule Tues 6.00pm - Equestrian - Jumping Individual Final Tues 6.05pm - Athletics - Heats & Preliminaries Tues 6.30pm - Canoe Sprint - Doubles, Fours, 500m Men's & Women's Heats Tues 10.30pm - Men's Basketball - Q/F Boomers vs Serbia Tues 11.00pm - Diving - Women's 10m Platform Final (Melissa Wu & Ellie Cole) Tues 11.43pm - Sailing - Men's Dinghy Medal Race (Matt Wearn) Wed 1.30am - Skateboarding - Women's Park Final (Arisa Trew, Ruby Trew) Wed 3.00am - Women's Water Polo - Q/F Australia vs Greece Wed 3.35am - Athletics - S/F's - Men's 400m, Women's 400m Hurdles Wed 3.55am - Cycling - Men's Sprint Final (Aust Qualified 3rd) Wed 3.57am - Athletics - Women's Hammer Final Wed 4.15am - Athletics - Men's Long Jump Final Wed 4.50am - Athletics - Men's 1500m Final Wed 5.00am - Women's Beach Volleyball - Q/F Australia vs Switzerland Wed 5.14am - Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase Final Wed 5.40am - Athletics - Women's 200m Final Wed 3.30pm - Athletics - Race Walk Marathon Mixed Relay Wed 6.05am - Athletics - Heats & Preliminaries Wed 7.00pm - Women's Basketball - Q/F Australia vs Serbia Wed 8.35pm - Sport Climbing - Women's Speed Q/F's, S/F's & Final Wed 10.43pm - Sailing - Mixed Multihull Medal Race Wed 11.43PM - Sailing - Mixed Dinghy Medal Race Thurs 1.30am - Men's Skateboarding - Park Final Thurs 2.04am - Men's Cycling - Teams Pursuit Final Thurs 2.57am - Women's Cycling - Teams Pursuit Final Thurs 3,00am - Men's Water Polo - Q/F Sharks vs USA Thurs 3.00am - Athletics - Women's Pole Vault Final (Nina Kennedy) Thurs 4.25am - Athletics - Men's Discus Final Thurs 5.20am - Athletics - Men's 400m Final Thurs 5.43am - Athletics - Men's 3000m Steeplechase Thurs 3.30pm - Marathon Swimming - Women's 10km Thurs 6.05pm - Athletics - Heats & Preliminaries Thurs 7.20pm - Canoe Sprint - Q/F's, S/F's, Finals Thurs 8.46pm - Sport Climbing - Men's Final Thurs 11.00pm - Men's Diving - 3m Springboard Thurs 11.00pm - Women's Weightlifting - 59kg Class Fri 2.15am - Women's Cycling - Keiren S/F/s, Final Fri 3.27am - Men's Cycling - Omnium Points Race Final Fri 3.30am - Men's Weightlifting - 73kg Final Fri 3.35am - Athletic's - Women's 1500m S/F Fri 4.00am - Athletics - Women's Long Jump Final Fri 4.25am - Athletics - Men's Javelin Final Fri 4.30am - Athletics - Men's 200m Final Fri 5.25am - Athletics - Women's 400m Hurdles Final Fri 5.30am - Men's Boxing - S/F Charlie Senior Fri 5.45am - Athletics - Men's 110m Hurdles Final Fri 6.02am - Women's Boxing - S/F Caitlin Parker Fri 3.30pm - Marathon Swimming - 10km Final Fri 6.05pm - Athletics - Heats & Preliminaries Fri 6.30pm - Canoe Sprint - S/F's & Finals Fri 8.35pm - Sport Climbing - Men's Boulder, Lead Final Fri 11.00pm - Women's Diving - Springboard 3m Final Fri 11.00pm - Weightlifting - Men's 89kg Final Sat 2.00am - Men's Cycling - Sprint Final Sat 2.09am - Women's Cycling - Madison Final Sat 3.30am - Athletes - Women's 4 X 100m Final Sat 3.30am - Weightlifting - Women's 71kg Final Sat 3.37am - Athletics - Women's Shot Put Final Sat 3.47am - Athletics - Men's 4 x 100m Final Sat 4.00am - Athletics - Women's 400m Final Sat 4.13am - Athletics - Men's Triple Jump Final Sat 4.25am - Athletics - Women's Heptathlon 800m Final Sat 4.57am - Athletics - Women's 10.000m Final Sat 5.45am - Athletics - Men's 400m Hurdles Final Sat 4.00pm - Athletics - Men's Marathon Sat 5.00pm - Women's Golf - Round 4 Sat 7.40pm - Canoe Sprint - Women's & Men's S/F's & Finals Sat 8.35pm - Sport Climbing - Women's Boulder Lead Final Sat 11.00pm - Diving - Men's 10m Platform Final

We might do ok in the Canoe Sprint races as well as a couple of other sports If we get to 45 medals (currently 33) I'll give us another 4 more Gold. So 17 all-up, but maybe even 19 or 20 if augers well and with luck on our side But I'm reasonably optimistic about our chances. I usually prefer to be a realist but for the sake of the exercise, being a realist is a bit boring, TD I reckon the Brits will exceed 20 Gold so they should get past us. As will France and possibly Japan. So top 6 might have to do Gold medal chances Sailing 1 Cycling 1 maybe 2 Track & Field 1 maybe 2 Canoe Sprint 1 maybe 2 Teams events - maybe 1 (Stingers?) Boxing maybe 1

Oh, oK What might their penalties be? If guilty? I'm excited for the EPL season but without any real tribalism involved in terms of winning big Like a number of the other clubs, West Ham don't really try and win the League or FA Cup and as for the league, anywhere 4th to 12 the is the goal for a club without a lot of spending power So it's more about the way we play when you're up against a team like Man City who have 11 of the best 50 players in the world in their line-up But I really look forward to the clashes between the big guns A very different way of following a sport don't you think?

Jack Robinson takes out the Silver medal in the Men's Surfing... couldn't catch a break but the local Tahitian surfer wins with a stunning opening wave

Unreal! A star is born! And we're back on the Gold Medal Train

It looked like we were trying a few different moves out there tonight including a number of backhand shots (some came off, others didn't) Our focus will be on the QF match-up but we'll be playing a team ranked either #3, #5, #6 or #8 in the world! And we are ranked #9 but apart from tonight, we've played like men on a mission It's going to be tough as I'm not sure we've ever made a SF at Olympic level before (Men's) But we're in with a shot! Much might depend on how well Milos Maksimovic plays, as he's got match-winning capabilities Anyway, the Kayak Cross Q/F's start soon and we've got 3 representatives (was a shame that Jess missed a berth but her Sister Noèmie got through winning her heat last night)

Err ... not quite! Anyway, the EPL kicks off Saturday morning 17th August at 5.00am (Man Utd vs Fulham) So can any team put a stop to Man City's dominance? City have won the last 4 titles along with 6 of the last 7 EPL titles

The Sharks leading 7-3 against Japan We can't move from 2nd place in our group but the other group could see a change in order of the top 4, depending on who wins against who Think I'm right in saying we could end up playing any 1 of 4 opponents (Italy, Croatia, USA or Greece) ... again, depending on the results in the last round of games And any of the 4 opponents will be hard to beat but also, all are beatable if the Sharks continue to bring their A game

We're running out of teams, TD! Men's & Women's Water Polo, Men's & Women's Basketball and the Women's Beach Volleyball are our remaining 5 chances I'd say our best chance are the Stingers and then maybe the Women's Beach Volleyball or the Opals* The Boomers can reach the S/F's but it gets tough from there whilst if the Sharks can continue their great form, they may snag a medal *If the Opals win their Q/F match their likely SF opponent will be the USA

Hockeyroos disappointing but we had our chances (5 short corners in a row led to zero conversions) In my view, the better team won as we were well short of our best. And China played very well (especially their press and defence) The curse of the knockout QF's continues Anyway, at least 5 chances to medal tonight Noèmie Fox, Tim Anderson & Tristan Carter in the Canoe Slalom Kayak Cross have all advanced to the QF's Kurtis Marschall in the Men's Pole Vault has a good chance to medal Jack Robinson in the Men's Surfing can win his SF and Rose Davies is an outside chance in the 5000m Final The Sharks play Japan in their final group match but I'm not sure we can move from 2nd place anyway (based on head-to-head)

The Hockeyroos finally get it back to 2-3 but we haven't handled China's press very well at all One quarter to save our Olympic campaign

Every Aussie competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics, and their medal chances rated Roy & Hg Podcast Full Schedule Mon 4.00pm - Triathlon - Mixed Final (Team Australia) Mon 6.00pm - Women's Hockey Q/F - Australia vs China Mon 6.05pm - Athletics - Heats & Preliminaries Mon 7.45pm - Men's Gymnastics - Parallel Bars Final Mon 8.38pm - Women's Gymnastics - Balance Beam Final Mon 9.35pm - Men's Water Polo - Sharks vs Japan Mon 10.23pm - Women's Gymnastics - Floor Exercise Final Mon 11.30pm - Canoe Slalom - Women's Kayak Cross Q/F Mon 11.52pm - Canoe Slalom - Men's Kayak Cross Q/F (Noèmie Fox, Tim Anderson, Tristan Carter) Tues 12.15am - Canoe Slalom - Women's & Men's Kayak Cross S/F's & Final's Tues 3.00am - Athletics - Men's Pole Vault Final (Kurtis Marschall) Tues 3.00am - Surfing - Men's S/F's (Jack Robinson) Tues 4.12am - Surfing - Women's S/F's Tues 3.46am - Cycling - Women's Teams Sprint Final Tues 4.30am - Athletcs - Women's Discus Final Tues 5.15am - Athletics - Women's 5000m Final (Rose Davies) Tues 5.24am - Surfing - Women's & Men's Bronze & Gold Medal Matches Tues 5.47am - Athletics - Women's 800m Final Tues 6.00pm - Equestrian - Jumping Individual Final Tues 6.05pm - Athletics - Heats & Preliminaries Tues 10.30pm - Men's Basketball - Q/F Boomers vs Serbia Tues 10.43pm - Sailing - Women's Dinghy Medal Race Tues 11.00pm - Diving - Women's 10m Platform Final Tues 11.43pm - Sailing - Men's Dinghy Medal Race Wed 1.30am - Skateboarding - Women's Park Final Wed 3.00am - Women's Water Polo - Q/F Australia vs Greece Wed 3.35am - Athletics - S/F's Wed 3.55am - Cycling - Men's Sprint Final Wed 3.57am - Athletics - Women's Hammer Final Wed 4.15am - Athletics - Men's Long Jump Final Wed 4.50am - Athletics - Men's 1500m Final Wed 5.00am - Women's Beach Volleyball - Q/F Australia vs Switzerland Wed 5.14am - Athletics - Women's 3000m Steeplechase Final Wed 5.40am - Athletics - Women's 200m Final Wed 3.30pm - Athletics - Race Walk Marathon Mixed Relay Wed 6.05am - Athletics - Heats & Preliminaries Wed 7.00pm - Women's Basketball - Q/F Australia vs Serbia Wed 8.35pm - Sport Climbing - Women's Speed Q/F's, S/F's & Final Wed 10.00pm - Water Polo - Men's Q/F Wed 10.43pm - Sailing - Mixed Multihull Medal Race Wed 11.35pm - Water Polo - Men's Q/F Wed 11.43PM - Sailing - Mixed Dinghy Medal Race Thurs 1.30am - Men's Skateboarding - Park Final Thurs 2.04am - Men's Cycling - Teams Pursuit Final Thurs 2.57am - Women's Cycling - Teams Pursuit Final Thurs 3.00am - Athletics - Women's Pole Vault Final (Nina Kennedy) Thurs 4.25am - Athletics - Men's Discus Final Thurs 5.20am - Athletics - Men's 400m Final Thurs 5.43am - Athletics - Men's 3000m Steeplechase Thurs 3.30pm - Marathon Swimming - Women's 10km Thurs 6.05pm - Athletics - Heats & Preliminaries Thurs 7.20pm - Canoe Sprint - Q/F's, S/F's, Finals Thurs 8.46pm - Sport Climbing - Men's Final Thurs 10.35pm - Women's Water Polo - S/F Thurs 11.00pm - Men's Diving - 3m Springboard Thurs 11.00pm - Women's Weightlifting - 59kg Class

Yes, the medals keep coming but in terms of the Gold medals, they will be tough to attain from here on in. Sailing & Track Cycling might deliver a couple and maybe a few more elsewhere in the other sports (Canoe Slalom Kayak Cross tonight for the Women's & Men's?) But there's usually a couple of surprise Gold medals and we may well end up challenging the 17 Gold we attained in Athens & Sydney But to win a medal of any colour is quite the achievement and we only have to look at the joy on the athletes faces when they win a Silver or Bronze (any Nation) It would be nice to be able to say to anyone that you've won an Olympic Medal!! So well done to all our medallists overnight. Kudos!

I thought that might have been a factor but couldn't see it within the rules of how the teams advance Makes sense too as we did beat them in the group matches. So I stand corrected!! (you are the guru of all things Olympics, TD!) But again, avoiding the USA & Spain in the Q/F's was paramount and if we get past the Q/F we'll still have to beat the best to win big anyway. But the first assignment is France, Greece or Italy and that won't be easy The Men's Water Polo team has a chance to finish outright 2nd if we can defeat Japan but regardless, our QF opponent will be a tough assignment

I'm not sure whether we have topped the group as the Netherlands can draw level on points if they beat Canada ... and their goal difference shades ours as well? (or will do if they win) Regardless, we're in a strong position to advance past the Q/F's as we've avoided the 2 strong teams in the other group (for now)

We go to penalties in the Women's Water Polo which means we can't finish worse than 2nd in our group and thus, avoiding powerhouse's Spain & the USA in the Q/F's Edit: And we win on penalties! Avoiding finishing 3rd was the main goal and the Water Polo Women are playing really well. Alice Williams had a night out and Gabby Palm was fantastic in goal

Just has a look at the USA's team in the Basketball. On paper, they look unbeatable! Curry, James, Adebayo, Booker, Davis, Durant, Edwards, Embiid, Haiburton, Holiday, Taturn & White Good luck!

Yes, and as you would be aware, TD, the Kookaburras match against the Dutch is a Q/F. So it's sudden death as are most of the team sports from here on in And 8 of our teams are still alive albeit just hanging on in the Men's & Women's Beach Volleyball. But both teams can rally Boomers ended up finishing 2nd in their group which lands us against Serbia in a Q/F. We avoided the USA (for now) Sharks have been very good and have been the real surprise packet whilst the Hockeyroos have been excellent from an overall point of view. Opals & Stingers are a real show

Caitlin Parker wins her Q/F bout on points after dominating the fight Now into the S/F's, Caitlin is assued of a medal and is up against a Chinese opponent who will be hard to beat. But Parker is a real show on current form

n.b At 1.00am tomorrow (Monday) Australia'a Artacho del Solar & Taliqua Clancy are in action in a round of 16 match against Brazil in the Women's Beach Volleyball Also, Novak Djokovic & Carlos Alcaraz face off in the Men's Singles Gold Medal match following the Women's Doubles Gold Medal Match (so sometime after 9.15pm) Other Medal chances tonight Grace Brown in the Cycling Road Race. Won the time-trial so could be a factor in the Road Race. Aussies Ruby Roseman-Gannon & Lauretta Hanson are also a chance Jason Day in the Golf but he might have to shoot at least a 65 in the 4th round. Calm conditions should see low scoring Shayna Jack & Meg Harris in the 50m Freestyle Both the Men's & Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay's Caitlin Parker in a Q/F of the 75kg Boxing (winner is guaranteed a Bronze medal) n.b. Caitlin's bout is on at 7.48pm AEST Eleanor Patterson & Nicola Olylagers in the Women's High Jump We may well have 1 or 2 more chances at a medal given the myriad of other sports all happening on the same day For a daily run down of the Australian Olympic representation go to www.thedailyaus.com.au